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Balfour Beatty Housing Lawsuit: Holding Privatized Housing Accountable
Exposing deceptive practices and dangerous housing conditions at NAS Key West.
Image by U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Cody R. Babin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
WE ARE ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS FOR THE BALFOUR BEATTY HOUSING CRISIS
Seeking Justice for Systemic Neglect at NAS Key West
Military families have an absolute right to expect safe air at home —we cannot be mission ready if our people are sick. When the institutions entrusted with your safety fail, our team steps in to enforce the safety rules, hold wrongdoers accountable, and pursue the financial recovery you need to rebuild your health and your life
As part of our commitment to holding private contractors responsible for toxic housing, Just Well Law has partnered with McKee Law Group and Cooper & Kirk to represent the military families at NAS Key West who faced severe consequences from institutional neglect. Our investigation exposed a pattern of deceptive practices and corporate negligence that left military families in dangerous, unsafe conditions for years.
Take the first step toward justice today.
A Pattern of Fraud and Institutional Failure
The crisis at Naval Air Station Key West is a systematic failure to provide safe military housing promised to families who serve our country. Balfour Beatty, a private contractor for a multi-billion-dollar military housing monopoly, cut corners, ignored dangerous conditions, and profited while residents were subjected to unconscionable living spaces. This case centers on a decade-long pattern of behavior where corporate profits were explicitly prioritized over the physical health of service members.
Balfour Beatty left families in deteriorating homes marked by severe water damage, structural defects, and continuous exposure to Stachybotrys (black mold). Residents uncovered mushrooms growing out of carpets, standing water inside HVAC systems, and crumbling walls. Despite repeated, urgent pleas for help, private operators chose to ignore environmental hazards and reportedly falsified repair records to collect performance bonuses.
For these families, the physical symptoms are the concrete receipts of corporate neglect. The human cost of living in these toxic environments includes documented immune dysfunction, deep neurological damage, and chronic respiratory injuries.
The Rights of Service Members
Families have the right to expect safe, habitable homes. Especially on a U.S. military installation. Our service members cannot remain mission-ready while battling housing conditions that make them, their spouses, and their children sick.
View the full brief: Talarico et al. v Balfour Beatty
Demanding Accountability for the NAS Key West Military Housing Crisis
Balfour Beatty contractors cut corners and ignored dangerous infrastructure defects. We represent military families in the movement to hold them responsible.
We understand that financial recovery is a necessary, non-negotiable step to rebuild your health and your life. Together, we will send a message to Balfour Beatty: safe housing is essential for the well-being of our military communities. As a leader in privatized military housing management, they have a responsibility to ensure that the properties they manage are safe and free from harm.
Your Symptoms are Evidence
The evidence of this institutional neglect is written in the medical records of the families who lived there. Our legal team represents service members and their families pursuing recovery for conditions that include:
- Toxic mold neurological impairment
- Mold-induced cognitive decline and brain fog
- Systemic immune dysfunction from toxic mold
- Asbestos-related lung injuries and scarring
- Lead-based paint poisoning
Your physical symptoms are the biological receipts of a corporate system that failed to protect the families it was entrusted to serve. The justice system relies on safety rules to safeguard our communities, but the system only works when brave people step forward to bring these claims.
Who We Are
We represent sick clients against the companies and institutions that made them sick.
Kristina Baehr
Kristina Baehr is a national trial lawyer and the founder of Just Well, a law firm dedicated to justice and wellness. She represents families poisoned in their own homes, schools, and communities — taking on corporations and governments that made them sick.
A Princeton and Yale Law graduate, Kristina rose to partner at a national trial firm, helping clients recover over $1 billion against Big Pharma and Big Tech before serving as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Army, Air Force, and VA.
After her own family was harmed by toxic exposure, she founded Just Well to fight for others. Today, her team leads landmark cases for families impacted by toxic mold, contaminated soil and water, and gas and chemical exposure.
Bob McKee
Robert J. McKee is a Florida-based trial lawyer and certified civil circuit mediator with a focus on personal injury cases involving chemical, microbial, and radiation exposure. He has secured some of Florida’s largest verdicts in mold, wrongful death, and pesticide exposure cases.
McKee graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida with a degree in Agricultural Science. He initially ran a horticultural business before transitioning to law. His notable achievements include significant wins against DuPont for pesticide damages and a $48 million post-COVID mold exposure verdict.
McKee has extensive knowledge in fungal exposure and environmental science.
David Thompson
David H. Thompson is the Managing Partner of Cooper & Kirk and has been with the firm since its founding.
With extensive trial and appellate experience, he has litigated in over 30 federal district courts, all 13 federal circuit courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, and numerous state courts, securing victories worth billions of dollars.
A Harvard graduate, he earned his A.B. magna cum laude in 1991 and his J.D. cum laude in 1994. His expertise spans commercial litigation, where he has represented both plaintiffs and defendants, winning significant verdicts, including a $205 million victory in AmBase Corp. v. United States.
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The justice system only works when brave people bring the claims. Take the first step toward holding them accountable.